Rawly-Mae Farm

Today I'm talking with Daniel and Joni at Rawly-Mae Farm.

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00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis.  A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free-to-use farm-to-table platform emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system.  You can find them at homegrowncollective.org.

00:25 Today I'm talking with Daniel and Joni at Rawly-Mae Farm in Tennessee.  Good morning, guys. How are you? Good morning. Good morning, we're good. How are you?  I'm good. And as we just said before I hit record, you guys have been up all night getting ready for things going on in your life. And I have  some pretty good allergies kicking my ass this morning. So we're going to try to make this as good as we can.  So you were saying that  it's really  muggy in Tennessee this morning?

00:54 It is. It's very humid and muggy and we're, it's dry enough for us to our hay. So we're getting our hay done right now. So. Says it feels like it's 87 degrees. Ugh, gross. Well, it's raining here. Just so listeners have a weather update from Minnesota to raining. Nice soaker. I'm really happy about this. This is good. So tell me about yourselves and what you do. So, um, we.

01:22 of course, own Rawly-Mae Farm. We started that in 2021. We are a first generation. We've both been around agriculture, our whole lives. But when we got started, Daniel was a police officer with the city of Cookeville and I was a special education teacher in White County. So we have

01:52 We both put in  over 10-year careers in those before we were both able to step away to just doing the farm. We have  two  children, Eliza who is nine and Ralston who is seven.  They are big into rodeo. We travel a lot with them and  try to support them the best we can  with all of their endeavors.

02:19 I think we have too many pets to actually name  as far as the livestock and the  dogs and stuff. But  that's just kind of like a short snippet of our life. Okay, awesome.  And I don't want to,  I'm going to do the opposite of burying the lead on this one. You said that you are getting ready to sell your farm. So does that mean that you're getting out of this?

02:48 No, it means we have outgrown where we're at currently. So we are landlocked where we are at. The airport in our area owns the land for the majority around us. So there's nowhere for us to expand. And with the amount of animals that we currently house,

03:17 needing hay and just the production of it all, we're needing to expand. So  we've been looking in White County for a farm that offers more acreage.  Okay, good. Cause I was,  I was afraid this was going to be a sad episode because I just talked to somebody last night and she did end up selling her farm,  um, year or two ago